Linda ZAMPOL D'ORTIA

- Formazione
Ph.D. in Religious Studies and History
University of Otago (Nuova Zelanda) 2017
Tesi: “The Cape of the Devil: Salvation in the Japanese Jesuit Mission Under Francisco Cabral (1570-1579)”

Laurea Specialistica in Scienze delle Religioni (Asia)
Università degli Studi di Padova / Università Ca’Foscari Venezia 2010

Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Culture dell'Asia Orientale (Giappone)
Università Ca’Foscari Venezia 2007

- Ricerca
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship 2021-presente
Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia 
Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
Project: “Emotions as Practice in the early modern Jesuit missions in the Asia-Pacific”

Borsa Vittorio Branca 08/2019-11/2019
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia 
Project: “Emotions and Conversion: Early Modern Jesuits in Asia”

Visiting Research Fellowship 06/2018-09/2018
Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe”
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (DE) 
Project: “Religion and the Senses: Religious Garments in the Jesuit Mission to Japan”

Harold S. Williams Fellowship for Research in Japan Studies 01/2018-03/2018
National Library of Australia (AU) 
Project: “Perceptions of Missionary Failure in Japan (1549-1639)”

Research Assistant 2015
CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)
Project: “Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan”
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alexandra Curvelo

- Didattica
Docente a contratto: “Storia della filosofia e delle religioni del Giappone antico” 2021
Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia
Corso avanzato sul cattolicesimo in Giappone (secoli sedicesimo-diciassettesimo) 

Lecturer: “Asian Religions and the West” 2014, 2016
Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago 
Corso avanzato sull'Orientalismo e le religioni asiatiche

Tutor: “The History of Christianity” 2014
Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago
Corso introduttivo sulla storia e teleogia del cristianesimo

Lecturer e Tutor: “Judaism, Christianity and Islam” 2012, 2013
Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago 

- Presentazioni (selezione)
“Emotional paths to Catholic evangelization in sixteenth-century Japan: Consolation”
Conference: “Lived Religion in Europe 1500-1800: Individual and Communal Practice" (Aix-
Marseille Université / Queen Mary University of London)” 2021. Invited.

“Tracing Feelings on Paper: Emotions in the Early Modern Missions in Asia”
Conference: “Translating and Connecting Worlds. Missionary Sources, Religious Diversity and
Cultural Pluralism” (ReIRes, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, CNR), 2021. Invited.

“Conversion, Martyrdom, and Salvation: Jesuit and Presbyterian Missionaries and Failure”
Conference: “Jesuit and Pietist missions during the long Eighteenth century in cross-confessional perspective” (Universität Hamburg / Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle), 2019. Invited.

“Debates on the Success of the Early Modern Jesuit Mission to Japan”
Seminar, Department of History, Universität Hamburg, 2019. Invited.

“Jesuit Soteriological Preoccupations in the Early Modern Mission in Japan”
Annual Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, 2018.

“Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Identity in Japan (1570-1580)”
Conference: “Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness,” Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 2015.

“Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Identity between India and Japan”
Conference: “Los misioneros cristianos como intelectuales interculturales, 1500-1800,” El Colegio de Mexico, 2014. Invited.